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A Time Keeping Exercise For Law Students Using Excel, Jennifer L. Dubetz

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

John Lennon sang, “Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans”. How do Law students plan and spend their time? The Time Keeping Exercise was created to help our Lawyers as Leaders students find out. This poster will discuss how the Library got involved to bring to life the professor’s vision of a standardized time keeping system complete with data analysis and a respect for student privacy. Learn how we created our Excel Spreadsheet, the problems encountered, solutions discovered, and the improvements made though five years of the Time Keeping Exercise. Additionally, the Time Keeping Exercise …

Law Schools Must Do More To Retain First-Generation Students, A. Benjamin Spencer, Charleigh Kondas

Popular Media

Law schools must do more to encourage, mentor, and engage first-generation law students to not only improve graduation rates, but also to improve law firm diversity, say William & Mary Law School Dean A. Benjamin Spencer and second-year law student Charleigh Kondas. They explain the work of the school’s First Generation Student Alliance, created as a place where students can freely discuss any struggles and questions.

Calls To Eliminate Bar Exams Are Premature, A. Benjamin Spencer

Popular Media

Calls for eliminating bar exams to improve fairness and diversity in the legal profession are increasing, but A. Benjamin Spencer, dean of William & Mary Law School, argues that eliminating them is not the answer. They should be transformed into a more effective gauge of professional readiness, which, he contends, can be achieved if more states adopt the Uniform Bar Exam.

Law Schools, Law Firms Must Share Responsibility For Diversity, A. Benjamin Spencer

Popular Media

Law schools and law firms must partner to ensure that a pipeline of underrepresented students apply to law school and receive the professional development support they need to remain and advance at firms, William & Mary Law School Dean A. Benjamin Spencer says. Those who make, interpret, and apply the law must reflect the full range of human experiences, thought, and insight into the human condition, he says.

Externships' Role In Training Practice-Ready Lawyers, Robert E. Kaplan

Popular Media

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Student Services Town Hall: Inspiration From A Distance, Kimberly Mattioli, Geraldine Kalim, Edna Lewis

Articles by Maurer Faculty

Drawing on inspiration and the creativity of others has long been a hallmark of the Student Services Librarian. Never before, however, have we needed each other quite as much as we have during this wild ride of an academic year. Motivated both by a desire to bring us all together and out of our own need to find inspiration, the three of us hatched a plan to host a Student Services Town Hall.

We purposely scheduled the event far enough into the semester that some of us could report on successful (and not-so-successful) attempts to continue Student Services work during …

Re-Envisioning Law Student Scholarship, Emily Zimmerman

Catholic University Law Review

This Article recommends that we think more intentionally about how law students’ engagement in scholarship can promote their professional development. In so doing, we should recognize that legal scholarship plays a different role for law students than it does for law professors. Rather than trying to replicate law professors’ relationship with scholarship, the pedagogy of law student scholarship should focus more intentionally on the value of scholarship for law students—most of whom will not become law professors.

This Article suggests that much of the value of scholarship for law students lies in process, rather than product. Rather than thinking …

The Institute For The Future Of Law Practice: A New Narrative For Legal Education And The Legal Profession, William D. Henderson

Articles by Maurer Faculty

"The mission of IFLP is to produce more legal professionals who have strong legal knowledge plus foundational training in allied disciplines — in other words, “T-shaped” legal professionals."

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You look down at your smartphone and see that you just got a text from a close family relative. They are asking to schedule a phone call.

The next line reads, “I’m thinking about going to law school.”

Well, if you read PD Quarterly, you’re likely a logical person to seek out for advice. You’ve got some time to think about it. What are you going to say?

Whatever your counsel, …

A Response To Professor Vernellia R. Randall's The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, First Year Law Students And Performance, Cynthia V. Ward

Cynthia V. Ward

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Why Law (School) Matters, Jesse Rutledge, Paul Marcus

Paul Marcus

Who are tomorrow’s lawyers? Professor Marcus talks about the declining number of applicants for law school, but the increasing quality of students.

Practice And Fitness Making Writing Perfection More Nearly Attainable, Heather Ridenour, David Spratt

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Every Silver Lining Has A Cloud: Defensive Pessimism In Legal Education, Emily Zimmerman, Casey Laduke

Catholic University Law Review

This Article presents the results of the first empirical research project to investigate law students’ use of defensive pessimism. Previous researchers have suggested that defensive pessimism may benefit law students academically. Defensive pessimism is a strategy that involves setting low expectations and reflecting extensively on what could go wrong in connection with a future event in order to manage anxiety and improve performance. However, up until now, law students’ use of defensive pessimism has not been empirically studied.

We investigated law students’ use of defensive pessimism. Contrary to the suggestions of other scholars, we did not find statistically significant relationships …

1l Oral Advocacy Competition, University Of Michigan Law School

Event Materials

Program for the 1L Oral Advocacy Competition final round.

Impact, University Of Michigan Law School

Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications

2016-2017 MLaw Impact Report. In the pages of our new Impact Report, you will see a snapshot of the Law School today and the ways that your support helps to provide an exemplary legal education in an unrivaled community.

An All-Volunteer Force: Law Students And Pro Bono Lawyers Helping Veterans, Patricia E. Roberts

South Carolina Law Review

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Is Courtesy No Longer Contagious, David Spratt

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Location And Interval Before Lucrative Practice, Enoch G. Hogate

Enoch George Hogate (1906-1918; 1918-1924 Dean Emeritus)

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How Metacognitive Deficiencies Of Law Students Lead To Biased Ratings Of Law Professors, Catherine J. Wasson, Barbara J. Tyler

Touro Law Review

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Robel: Preparing For Seamlessly Global Profession, Lauren K. Robel

Lauren Robel (2002 Acting; 2003-2011)

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Innocents Abroad: Reflections On Summer Abroad Law Programs, Eileen Kaufman, Louise Harmon

Louise Harmon

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Innocents Abroad: Reflections On Summer Abroad Law Programs, Eileen Kaufman, Louise Harmon

Eileen Kaufman

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In Memorium: Joseph Paul Doyle, Justin M. Marchesi

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

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Legal Education And Civility, Mark Niles

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Sometimes Putting Pen To Paper Is Tougher Than It Seems, Heather Ridenour, David Spratt

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Teaching Employment Discrimination, Angela Onwuachi-Willig

Faculty Scholarship

In this Essay, I explore and discuss various methods for effectively teaching civil rights to this "post-racial" generation. Specifically, I examine the following four classroom challenges: (1) this generation's general lack of understanding about the historical context in which many civil rights laws-for purposes of this Essay, Title VII-arose; (2) the general lack of real-life work experience among many law students; (3) a growing decline in the racial and ethnic diversity of law school classes; and (4) the increasing complexities of discrimination in the workplace, including forms of discrimination such as proxy discrimination and demands for covering. 11 I analyze …

The Rhetoric Of Catharsis And Change: Law School Autobiography As A Nonfiction Law And Literature Subgenre, Carlo A. Pedrioli

Carlo A. Pedrioli

To date, little scholarship, if any, has addressed the autobiographies of law students, which have appeared in law review articles and books since at least the late 1970s. This shortcoming of law and literature scholarship in the nonfiction genre of autobiography is problematic. In the interest of understanding diverse perspectives in the legal community, legal scholars with autobiographical interests ought to give attention to the autobiographies of different individuals in this community, including the law students who will be the future members of the profession. Also, this shortcoming leaves a gap in the narrative discourse of the law since lawyers …

A Noteworthy Absence, Nancy Leong

Faculty Publications

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Personal Integration And Outsider Status As Factors In Law Student Well-Being, Susan Grover

Faculty Publications

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Innocents Abroad: Reflections On Summer Abroad Law Programs, Eileen Kaufman, Louise Harmon

Scholarly Works

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Screening The Law: Ideology And Law In American Popular Culture, Mark Niles, Naomi Mezey

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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